sillonner

French

Etymology

From sillon +‎ -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.jɔ.ne/

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Verb

sillonner

1. to crisscross; cut across; furrow; to go back and forth (across)
2. (figuratively) to leave traces of one's passage or way

Conjugation

Conjugation of sillonner (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	sillonner
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	sillonnant /si.jɔ.nɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		sillonné /si.jɔ.ne/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	sillonne /si.jɔn/	sillonnes /si.jɔn/	sillonne /si.jɔn/	sillonnons /si.jɔ.nɔ̃/	sillonnez /si.jɔ.ne/	sillonnent /si.jɔn/
	imperfect	sillonnais /si.jɔ.nɛ/	sillonnais /si.jɔ.nɛ/	sillonnait /si.jɔ.nɛ/	sillonnions /si.jɔ.njɔ̃/	sillonniez /si.jɔ.nje/	sillonnaient /si.jɔ.nɛ/
	past historic2	sillonnai /si.jɔ.ne/	sillonnas /si.jɔ.na/	sillonna /si.jɔ.na/	sillonnâmes /si.jɔ.nam/	sillonnâtes /si.jɔ.nat/	sillonnèrent /si.jɔ.nɛʁ/
	future	sillonnerai /si.jɔn.ʁe/	sillonneras /si.jɔn.ʁa/	sillonnera /si.jɔn.ʁa/	sillonnerons /si.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/	sillonnerez /si.jɔn.ʁe/	sillonneront /si.jɔn.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	sillonnerais /si.jɔn.ʁɛ/	sillonnerais /si.jɔn.ʁɛ/	sillonnerait /si.jɔn.ʁɛ/	sillonnerions /si.jɔ.nə.ʁjɔ̃/	sillonneriez /si.jɔ.nə.ʁje/	sillonneraient /si.jɔn.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	sillonne /si.jɔn/	sillonnes /si.jɔn/	sillonne /si.jɔn/	sillonnions /si.jɔ.njɔ̃/	sillonniez /si.jɔ.nje/	sillonnent /si.jɔn/
	imperfect2	sillonnasse /si.jɔ.nas/	sillonnasses /si.jɔ.nas/	sillonnât /si.jɔ.na/	sillonnassions /si.jɔ.na.sjɔ̃/	sillonnassiez /si.jɔ.na.sje/	sillonnassent /si.jɔ.nas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	sillonne /si.jɔn/	—	sillonnons /si.jɔ.nɔ̃/	sillonnez /si.jɔ.ne/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• sillonné

Related terms

• sillon

Further reading

• “sillonner”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.